title: An international survey of oral medicine practice: proceedings from the 5th World Workshop in Oral Medicine.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  (i) To define the current state of oral medicine clinical practice internationally, and (ii) to make recommendations for future modeling of the practice of oral medicine.
  
  
  METHODS
  A survey was designed by an international panel of oral medicine experts to assess the current state of oral medicine practice internationally. The survey was sent to oral medicine experts across the world, and responses were electronically stored and analyzed using descriptive statistics.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two hundred respondents completed the survey representing 40 countries from six continents. The two most common settings for an oral medicine practice were in a hospital and a dental school. More than 88% of respondents considered management of oral mucosal disease, salivary dysfunction, oral manifestations of systemic diseases, and facial pain in the definition of oral medicine.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  (i) Oral medicine clinicians diagnose and manage a wide variety of orofacial conditions; (ii) There are significant differences in the definition of oral medicine clinical practice from country to country; (iii) India has the largest expansion of oral medicine services as defined by escalating numbers of clinicians within the specialty as compared with other countries; (iv) oral medicine practitioners have a wide range of professional responsibilities.
authors.affiliation: Oral Medicine Residency Program, Department of Oral Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. ets@pobox.upenn.edu
authors.forename: E T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Stoopler
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shirlaw
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arvind
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lo Russo
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bez
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: De Rossi
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Garfunkel
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gibson
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Thongprasom
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Brennan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003796:Dental Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004194:Disease; D005157:Facial Pain; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D008875:Middle Aged; D009059:Mouth Diseases; D019242:Oral Medicine / Q000193:education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D012466:Salivary Gland Diseases; D012575:Schools, Dental / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013039:Specialties, Dental / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors